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And There Was Light

The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

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And There Was Light

By: Jacques Lusseyran
Narrated by: Andre Gregory
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This digital audiobook was created from the only remaining analog source and contains a slight tape hiss.

When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published.

©2014 New World Library (P)2014 New World Library Europe France Historical Military War Memoir
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You could not help but be inspired by this amazing man. His insight into the use of the mind is a real instruction to us all. I'm already working on honing my ability to pay attention, and not to rely on visual perception alone. Highly recommend.

What a man!

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more than loved this book....what a divine man, humble and walks with the gift of life.. God walks with this man.

A true gift

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